Bacon on the Side (French: Il reste du jambon?; lit. 'Is there ham?') is a French romantic comedy film, released in 2010. Written and directed by Anne Depétrini, the film stars Ramzy Bedia and Anne Marivin as Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix, a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
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Cast
Ramzy Bedia as Djalil Boudaoud
Anne Marivin as Justine Lacroix
Marie-France Pisier as Nicole Lacroix
Mohamed Fellag as Mahmoud Boudaoud
Biyouna as Houria Boudaoud
Jean-Luc Bideau as Charles Lacroix
Géraldine Nakache as Sophie
Leïla Bekhti as Anissa Boudaoud
Arnaud Henriet as Mathieu
Alex Lutz as Benoît Dubreuil
Éric Judor as The vigil
Frédéric Chau as Sophie's boyfriend
Franck Gastambide, Medi Sadoun & Jib Pocthier as The 3 Swiss
Around the film
Depétrini, Bedia's real-life wife at the time, wrote the film as a fictionalization of their own relationship.
The film won the Radio-Canada Audience Award at the 2011 Cinéfranco film festival.